Andre Roberson, the only player in the Pac-12 averaging a double-double with 11 points and 11 rebounds per game, should be a shoo-in for a five-player all-Pac-12 team. Having it a 10-man team dilutes the impact, significance and prestige of being named “all-conference.”

And if the Pac-12 insists on a 10-man first team, why does it only have a five-man second team? What sense does that make? The ridiculous seems even more ridiculous.

Roberson is on the Pac-12 all-defensive team (Thank God, that’s a five-man team), and Colorado’s Spencer Dinwiddie made the five-man all-freshman team.

I don’t have a problem with Jorge Gutierrez of California earning Pac-12 player-of-the-year honors. The coaches realize that the former Denver Lincoln product does so much for the Bears at both ends of the court, much more than his stats could show.

But I would have voted Colorado’s Tad Boyle as coach of the year (instead of Washington’s Lorenzo Romar). As a conference newcomer, CU finished in the upper division (tied for fifth) after having lost two players (Alec Burks and Cory Higgins) to the NBA and 75 percent of the 2010-11 scoring.

The Pac-12 is down this year but I can brag to some of my sportswriter friends who cover other leagues that the Pac-12 all-stars would beat another more highly rated conference.

There are some sure bets around here in April: It will snow. The Colorado Rockies will be optimistic coming out of spring training. And, this year, Baylor will be here for the Women’s Final Four.

The top-ranked Bears remain the nation’s only unbeaten team and are doing it at both ends of the floor. Entering the weekend they led the nation in shooting (now at .487) and second in shooting defense (.307) with the No. 2-career shot blocker in women’s hoops history in Brittney Griner (550 and counting).

What’s more, coach Kim Mulkey gave her players a mantra they can repeat every day for the entire season: National Championship or Bust. That’s not Denver or Bust. It’s National Championship or Bust.

“They were disappointed last year when they didn’t return,” Mulkey told me by phone last week, “and I think it’s time to challenge them in a way that doesn’t put pressure on them but addresses the reality of, “You’re as good as anybody in the country and it’s OK to tell people our goal is the national championship.”

Colorado State’s two wins last week, including the team’s first conference road win, has it sitting in its best NCAA Tournament position of the season. And yet all anyone in the program talks about is winning, winning and winning some more. Players and coaches want nothing left to chance.

“We’ve just got to go into the Mountain West tournament with the mindset that we’ve got to win all three to get in, just keep winning,” said CSU guard Dorian Green after his team’s win at Air Force on Saturday. “Because if you keep winning, you can’t get hurt.”

The Rams (19-10 overall, 8-6 Mountain West), head to Las Vegas this week to play in the MWC tournament, which begins with a game against TCU on Thursday at 3:30 p.m. CSU is fourth-seeded in the tournament; TCU is the No. 5 seed.

Terry Frei graduated from Wheat Ridge High School in the Denver area and has degrees in history and journalism from the University of Colorado-Boulder. He worked for the Rocky Mountain News while attending CU and joined the Post staff after graduation. He has also worked at the Oregonian in Portland, Ore., and The Sporting News. His seventh book, March 1939: Before the Madness, was issued in February 2014.